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Saw a picture of Josh Hawley getting a congratulatory kiss from his wife after winning back his seat in the Senate. 

The guy is wearing denim from neck to ankle with boots. 

How often do you think he wears that in D.C.? 

Why did rednecks allow a Ivy League graduate to hoodwink themselves into thinking he is one of them? 

Trump promised to cut energy costs by half in one year. Watch out Ameren, Spire, oil companies, etc!

RockChalkSTL wrote: ↑

Nov 08, 2024

Saw a picture of Josh Hawley getting a congratulatory kiss from his wife after winning back his seat in the Senate. 

The guy is wearing denim from neck to ankle with boots. 

How often do you think he wears that in D.C.? 

Why did rednecks allow a Ivy League graduate to hoodwink themselves into thinking he is one of them? 

This is one of the greatest posts of all time, seriously.

RockChalkSTL wrote: ↑

Nov 08, 2024

Saw a picture of Josh Hawley getting a congratulatory kiss from his wife after winning back his seat in the Senate. 

The guy is wearing denim from neck to ankle with boots. 

How often do you think he wears that in D.C.? 

Why did rednecks allow a Ivy League graduate to hoodwink themselves into thinking he is one of them? 

Why did Democrats hoodwink themselves into thinking the senator of Citibank cares about the working class?

Final STL City numbers are in.

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/d ... ummary.pdf

Turnout was in the tank compared to 2020. With a combo of fewer registered voters (in part due to population loss) and lower enthusiasm, there were 17,000 and 12.7% fewer votes cast in 2024 compare to 2020. (fwiw Harris won nearly the same % as Biden did in 2020.) Disappointing.

Where can I find presidential election results by municipality?


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Looks like the House will be 217-215  until late spring since Trump pulled 3 GOP members to admin spots.  that is basically not a functional house, 220-215 isnt either. 

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

Nov 27, 2024

Looks like the House will be 217-215  until late spring since Trump pulled 3 GOP members to admin spots.  that is basically not a functional house, 220-215 isnt either. 

Not functional for insane sh*t when you need people like Brian Fitzpatrick to support it. What an amazing "mandate".

STLrainbow wrote: ↑

Nov 21, 2024

Final STL City numbers are in.

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/d ... ummary.pdf

Turnout was in the tank compared to 2020. With a combo of fewer registered voters (in part due to population loss) and lower enthusiasm, there were 17,000 and 12.7% fewer votes cast in 2024 compare to 2020. (fwiw Harris won nearly the same % as Biden did in 2020.) Disappointing.

Turnout went down in Metro KC as well--on both sides of State Line Rd.   
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politic ... 95814.html

Electoral college map 1976 presidential election.
California, Oregon, Washington State, Illinois were red.
Florida, Texas, Missouri, Ohio, Southeast were blue.
I just thought this was interesting.

^Even in 1988 Vermont--one of the bluest states in the US in 2025--voted Republican while West Virginia-currently one of the reddest--voted Democratic.

leeharveyawesome wrote: ↑

Jan 12, 2025

Electoral college map 1976 presidential election.
California, Oregon, Washington State, Illinois were red.
Florida, Texas, Missouri, Ohio, Southeast were blue.
I just thought this was interesting.

I would mostly put the SE down to Carter's pre-Reagan Evangelical coalition. (Reagan being governor of California at this time.) 

It's hard to get much information from a map like this though, since it just says e.g. California was "Red" and now it's "Blue", which isn't very informative. Was it 99% Republican or 55% Republican? If from 1976 to 1992 it went from 55% Republican to 45% Republican, is that because 10% of Californians switched to Democrat, or because 100% of Californians swapped parties? All the nuance is obscured.

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One of Trump’s executive orders, on energy (www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...) includes this element, which appears to be asserting the admin will pause all funding from both the IRA & the infrastructure law, which funds highways, transit, water, broadband, etc.



https://bsky.app/profile/yfreemark.bsky ... 7xixzu222u

One thing he's done that probably will help downtown is ordering everyone back to work. Heard that the federal building is down about 45-50% headcount each day. From about 750-800 pre-Covid to 350-400. Not sure about any of the other federal offices downtown.

Other than that, pretty much everything else he's done is awful. Even worse than I expected too.

Gotta wonder what Musk thinks of Trump's backing away from EV infrastructure.

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If you're wondering where the GOP's head is at when it comes to Amtrak & US passenger rail, look no further than this message from House GOP: transportation.house.gov/news/email/s... Goals: —"Weaning [Amtrak] off government support" —Amtrak is not "a replacement for vehicles [cars] & airplanes"

Checking in on the local economy with Trump in power: International Institute furloughs 60% of its staff and may cancel the festival of nations (the largest multicultural event in the country which drew 100K attendees last year).

https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... 2#cxrecs_s

Will be only one of many destructive policies of this already failing administration. Who would’ve known?!

I didn’t vote 4 Trump cause the the 4 years he was given was a disaster this next 4 years will be even worse I wouldn’t be shocked if some serious near destructive stuff happens.


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PlatinumBlues wrote: ↑

Feb 02, 2025

I didn’t vote 4 Trump cause the the 4 years he was given was a disaster this next 4 years will be even worse I wouldn’t be shocked if some serious near destructive stuff happens.


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I want to see where we are about 90 days in. I figure there is going to be a lot going on still over the next few weeks and we will see in 90 days where things settle out at, especially on the tariff front.

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PlatinumBlues wrote: ↑

Feb 02, 2025

I didn’t vote 4 Trump cause the the 4 years he was given was a disaster this next 4 years will be even worse I wouldn’t be shocked if some serious near destructive stuff happens.


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I want to see where we are about 90 days in. I figure there is going to be a lot going on still over the next few weeks and we will see in 90 days where things settle out at, especially on the tariff front.

Specially if Canada plans on going after red states like Missouri this will not bode well for Missouri nor other red states I’m sure other countries such as Mexico & China will follow suit among many others. The tariffs alone will send this country into chaos.


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This sh*t will actually crash the economy if they stick to it. Wouldn't be shocked if the stock market is down big on Monday.

Literally no one thinks this is a good idea except the fascists and the brain washed sheep. US Chamber of Commerce says it's stupid, other countries say it's stupid, unions say it's stupid, other Republicans like Tim Scott said he was "speaking metaphorically" back in October when talking about tariffs.

McKinley's tariffs caused a market crash so bad that JP Morgan had to bail the feds out, the 1920s tariff regime caused the markets to crash in 1929, and then Hoover's tariff caused the Great Depression.

Do the Democrats have a FDR in the bullpen ready to bring in? Andy Beshear and JB Pritzker I think could be pretty good.

The one thing tariffs are guaranteed to do is cause inflation. So looks like they got fooled again.

When GM imports parts from Canada, there's a tariff, but when Toyota imports parts from Japan, no tariff.